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Covid-19 Factoid: India makes another record of highest single-day spike

India is now the biggest contributor to rise in global tally of coronavirus cases, while in both Maharashtra and Delhi, daily cases are still on the rise

A health worker in PPE collects a swab sample from a man at a local health centre to conduct tests for the coronavirus disease, amid the spread of the disease, in New Delhi.

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India is now the biggest contributor to the rise in the global tally of confirmed coronavirus cases.

3 min read Last Updated : Aug 30 2020 | 1:16 PM IST

The global confirmed case count is now 25.1 million, of which more than half the cases are from just three countries – the US, Brazil, and India. Global recoveries stand at almost 17.5 million, while fatalities have crossed 846,000.

In India, there are now more than 3.5 million cases, of which 725,991, or 21.6 per cent are currently active. Recovery rate has risen marginally to 76.6 per cent, with over 2.7 million people recovering from the infection. The mortality rate is now at 1.79 per cent, with over 63,000 deaths, the fourth highest death toll in the world.

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